Driver hits two teens, then flees

Angry words over a dog escalated to a melee in West Seattle on Wednesday, when a woman threatened two teens with a Taser, then hit them with her car.

She rammed the two Chief Sealth High School students Wednesday morning in the 2600 block of Southwest Thistle Street in West Seattle, police said.

The teens, age 17 and 18, were hit about 10:10 a.m. Medics said the girl and young woman were conscious and alert but suffered trauma to their bodies.

“All of a sudden you hear, ‘Boom! Boom!’ ” said witness Thomas Terry told KOMO-TV. “And I see two bodies just fly up in the air; the car just drove off like they didn’t even care. It had to be going at least 60, 65 (mph).”

The driver was a 37-year-old woman who had been been arguing with the students. She drove a black Honda, though police did not know the model or have additional details.

“Witnesses stated that the suspect got into a physical fight with one of the victims because the victim struck her (suspect’s) dog,” Seattle Police Detective Renee Witt said in a statement. “The fist fight ended and the suspect left and returned to the area and located and chased the victim with a Taser. The victim ran away and was returning to school when the suspect reappeared with her vehicle facing the two victims.”

Witnesses told KOMO-TV that the driver’s dog jumped on one of the girls, who hit the animal. The girls and driver argued, then the driver brought out a Taser and chased the girls, who ran toward Sealth.

That’s when the woman drove her car into the teens, police said. They were taken to Harborview Medical Center and are expected to survive.

The woman, whom police initially said was 30 years old, called 911 and said she would turn herself in at 4 p.m., but did not, Witt said. Police didn’t give a more detailed description, but asked that anyone with information about the case call 911.